THe Metro is a good thing but I think it is tooo expensive for India to scale to a point where it can help allievate the urban transport woes. 1. Does anybody...
Sadly any form of high performance transport system is going to be costly and the fares will therefore be high. A metro that involves tunnels is very costly...
Dude, Keep aside the cost, cos its nowhere in the picture. Every passing day without the metro in Noida, people are virtually dying. I have bought a new swift,...
Dude, You dont get the context of my question or I dont understand what you are saying. I am sick of going to office everyday in Bangalore. I need a Metro line...
Iain, THough I agree with most of what you are saying, I dont think it answers my question completely. Yes I understand it is expensive. My question is what...
Well said Suhas - and imagine the overall burden on the nation if Metro is put in place in all the metros - who is going to bear it - do we have the incomes? ...
... From: Mohit Shukla <shuk718@...> Subject: RE: Questions on the capital cost of Metro To: delhimetro@yahoogroups.com Cc: srkulhalli@... Date:...
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Sucheta Dalal
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Apr 4, 2008 11:58 am
I agree with Sudhir. We have a great option available, waiting and further improved by Dr.Rajaram in the Skybus -- but even discussion groups like this are not...
Hello everyone, A recent news article about the BRT is copied below. Infact this is not the first. After long believing that BRT could be a viable, and lesser ...
I have had doubts for long that a BRT system running along the medians of the road would have been successful in Delhi. More so considering the kind of road...
Dear friends on the group, Last December I was in Delhi and traveled in the Metro during the peak hour, underground as well as on the elevated section. Very...
Mohit and others, My purpose here is not to start a Delhi vs Bangalore or Delhi vs Rest debate. I am trying to look at a solution which will work across India....
Suhas: I agree there is a possibility of substantial cost savings, if some additional thought is applied by our town planners. For e.g. there is no denying...
On LRT I wonder how well meaning those two IIT profs are, when they do not consider LRT at all. The BRT types seem to have a fetish for smart bus stops. In...
Trial runs of the Sky-bus showed that there are safety issues involved. An accident during a trail run resulted in fatality for an engineer of the project....
I will give a detailed response with figures, but wait a little while. All I will say right now is that the single accident that occurred during the test runs...
Reason drowns in the din of rhetoric! I just wanted to add my 2c on what I see as blown up misconceptions: 1. Skybus accident: That was an unfortunate incident...
Ankur and Sudhir: First of all let make it clear that I have not blown the Sky Bus accident out of proportion. There was a single accident and a single...
Mohit, I am picking up on the last reply on the Capital cost of Metro. You were dot on. We dont neccesarily need the Metro, or at least that is not the only...
Just today I read in papers (Mumbai) that Mr Deshmukh, CM Maharashtra mentioning Skybus as a mode of transport - a positive change - skybus seems to have at...
Suhas, suburban trains don’t have to be medium comfortable. They can be as comfortable as any modern commuter train. Since the word -suburban- conjures up...
Good points, Mohit - Thanks I believe that they had tried to introduce the high end EMU's for Mumbai Locals. It appears that the automated doors just wouldnt...
Sudhir, This is usefull information - Thanks Lets look at the elevated section first. The cost of elevating a given track is Rs 80 cr / km (100 - 20). I am...
... Mohit, my mail did not mean to refer to anyone in specific but it was a comment on general impression. As you also mention, it is a general impression that...
... Aptly worded. Innovation is THE REQUIREMENT OF THE DAY. There was an article couple of weeks back in the newspaper about Noida Metro. It said that the...
Going by the way media has panned the BRT of Delhi, the latter sounds like a mess created on an otherwise sprintly road. I feel sad at the disfiguring of a...
Dear Rajeev, Planning...was that ever done? It was a system, directly copied from other (non-Delhi) cities and implemented. Having stuck in the mess myself for...
Hello my Delhi friends, I think you all are a bunch of optimists, but the current road congestion for car users is compelling you to be so skeptical about the...
